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News Briefs 25-01-2008

News filtered through my flu-addled brain…

Thanks Kat.

Quote of the Day:

If we knew the world only through synapses, how could we know the synapse?

Richard Powers

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  1. change in blood type
    From The Age‘s article on that liver transplant patient:

    ‘The 15-year-old liver transplant patient has defied science by being the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor, negating the need for anti-rejection drugs for the rest of her life. The phenomenon, which has been documented in the New England Journal of Medicine, has amazed doctors, who say they have no idea how it occurred.’

    Both parents are O-, she’s now O+.

  2. Finally!!!!!
    I’ve been trying to log into the site for HOURS.

    Has any of you guys had a simmilar problem? And if so, does anyone know what happened?

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

      1. Same here!
        As many of you might guess, I’ve something of an addictive personality, and having to widthstand A WHOLE DAY without my daily fix of brain fodder was almost too much for me!

        —–
        It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
        It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

        Red Pill Junkie

        1. Another day on the Intarwebs
          As far as I understand it, the webserver software had a freak out while we were asleep here in Australia…perhaps something to do web-bots hammering the site I think. The man behind our server David may give more details if he drops by. Or he could just be quietly hating me for having to wake up to a broken TDG this morning.

          Kind regards,
          Greg
          ——————————————-
          You monkeys only think you’re running things

          1. Internet riot
            For a moment I thought Skynet had finally taking over, and you aussies were the first target 🙂

            —–
            It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
            It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

            Red Pill Junkie

  3. Quote:
    (…)there had

    [quote](…)there had better be some mad professor quotes getting thrown around the room (“It’s aliiiiiivee!”), or I’m gonna kick some butts.[/quote]

    Either that, or Craig Venter had better take a hunchback fellow as an escort to Stockholm when he receives the Nobel prize 😉

    —–
    It’s not the depth of the rabbit hole that bugs me…
    It’s all the rabbit SH*T you stumble over on your way down!!!

    Red Pill Junkie

    1. hunchback
      Ha, ha. That would be hilarious. If only ‘serious’ and ‘important’ people could have such a sense of humor – wouldn’t the world be so much more interesting. And fun. And unstuffy.

      tronicus

  4. a really fascinating
    a really fascinating selection of news. Good Job!

    “If we knew the world only through synapses, how could we know the synapse?”

    Isn’t that kind of like saying “if we see the world only through our eyes, how can we see eyes” ? ? ?

    tronicus

    1. Emergent properties
      [quote=Tronicus]”If we knew the world only through synapses, how could we know the synapse?”

      Isn’t that kind of like saying “if we see the world only through our eyes, how can we see eyes” ? ? ?[/quote]

      Hi Tronicus,

      Not really. The quote is pointing out a possible flaw in reductionism, that is, distilling the emergent property of mind, into the building block of synapse….the operation of a single synapse does not show how we can be conscious of something.

      Kind regards,
      Greg
      ——————————————-
      You monkeys only think you’re running things

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